salads to grow in summer Growing summer salads in August will help to extend the delicious taste of salad. Once you hit August, there's not much you can sow in the kitchen garden for eating this year, but salads are an except
planting narcissi bulbs with dahlias I love scented narcissi bulbs, and the ones bred from Narcissi tazetta or Narcissi jonquilla have delicate individual flowers in abundance at the top of every stem. They are one of the first things to
creating beautiful pot displays with primulas As some kind of consolation to a cold winter and late-to-arrive spring, you can – if you’ve got the oomph and a porch, deep window ledge or sheltered doorstep – invent your own kind
container dahlias | why sarah loves these Sarah discusses her current favourite dahlias for pots, and how to grow and care for them for the most floriferous container displays. By viewing the video, you agree to a data trans
planting a pelargonium pot display May is the time to plant up your summer pots. Tulips are going over and the frosts - for most of us - have passed, so we can safely put out any of the tender perennials and annuals that excel in cont
how to cordon train your sweet peas My friend Nipper Keely taught me how to cordon train my sweet peas to grow magnificent plants. Nipper’s stems of trained sweet peas are at least eighteen inches long, with five or six flowers o
layering sweet peas If you want sweet peas with spectacularly long, perfectly straight stems and lots of large flowers on each stem, it's a good idea to layer them, but this does involve tonnes of work. When you are rea
dahlia variabilis 'bishop's children' | why sarah loves this Sarah explains why she loves these brilliant, richly coloured flowers set against dark crimson foliage. A truly magnificent dahlia for a pot, is ‘Bishop’s Children
how to create a christmas tealight chandelier (two ways) Two great ideas for our Tealight Chandelier – decorated with rustic moss and berries, or classic ivy and silver baubles, it will look wonderfully festive hanging above your Christmas table this year
sarah's chelsea flower show garden 2017 In 2017 Sarah Raven was invited to design a garden for the famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Sarah's show garden was launched as part of the 'BBC Radio 2 Feel Good Gardens' campaign which aimed to uplif
favourite summer half-hardy annuals Sarah shows us five favourite summer half-hardy annuals for bountiful vases, brilliant containers and scented arrangements. One of my very favourite things at Perch Hill is ou
autumn-flowering chrysanths It's the end of November and I can still fill my arms with flowers. The chrysanthemumsin the garden and in the greenhouse are looking marvellous. Every year I grow them, I like them more, and my chrys
how to get summer colours in an autumn garden Here’s a useful exercise: walk around your garden today and make a note of what’s in flower and still looking good. Then try to think back to when those plants started flowering. Are there
Sarah's favourite bulb combinations I love autumn bulb planting. It’s one of the main opportunities we gardeners have to create our own style signature, to plot a great parade of colour and contrast which will keep us goin
favourite perennials: acanthus 'rue ledan' In this quick video, Sarah talks about one of her favourite perennials, Acanthus 'Rue Ledan'.Look at the size of this acanthus; I’m five foot nine and they’re taller than me, they must be six foot. Th
crop rotation in your veg patch Crop rotation is practised to avoid the build up of pests and diseases, and to make the best of any manures and fertilisers. There are three main groups of veg, and each group, once grown in the garde
